July 1st, 2008 — Blogging, google
It seems like some of the bloggers on blogger.com with anti-obama blogs have been blocked.
Personally, I don’t have a political opinion here but it looks like Google is marking those blogs as “spam”.
I am not sure what Google’s policies are on political blogs but just as an advice, I wouldn’t host my blog on blogger if I seriously wanted a “free voice” or freedom.
The bloggers in question, most of them supporters of Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton, and all of them opposed to Senator Obama, received a notice from Google last week saying that their sites had been identified as potential “spam” blogs. “You will not be able to publish posts to your blog until we review your site and confirm that it is not a spam blog,” the Google e-mail read.
Heck, the funny thing is, supporters of Clinton should now be supporting Obama, what is happening???
Well, we will leave that up to you to decide.
via nytimes
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May 7th, 2008 — Social Networking, Twitter
Twitter, a popular micro-blogging service, is working on blacklisting spammers. Well, they have been blacklisting spammers before but now I guess they are just more open about it.
What does this do for you?
Nothing, just twitt along and hope that the Twitter team will figure it out soon or later.
I don’t use twitter so often anymore due to the number of spam on my twitter. I hope this new blacklisting feature works out so I can use it more often.
There’s also an unofficial twitter blacklist made by someone…
Here’s an excert from the Twitter people:
Before today, Twitter would mark accounts as “spam”, but not tell the owners of the accounts they marked them as spam. Those owners of the accounts could follow others, but no one was able to follow them, and there was no way for the owners of those accounts to know they had been blacklisted.
We’ve been considering this issue here at Twitter HQ, and we’re planning on simply removing the accounts of users who have violated our Terms of Service, as opposed to freezing their account as we’ve done in the past.
To this I say, “wow, you guys ARE slow!”, simply because I have seen twitterpam about a year ago before it got popular among the top bloggers.
via techcrunch
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May 6th, 2008 — SEO, Webmaster's Tool, Zedomax Network News, web2.0
Today, I will talk briefly about how to identify splogs and protect yourself from losing your precious little Pagerank.
First and foremost, if you are a blogger, (and this article is intended for a blogger) you need to be aware of trackbacks left on your blog.
Now, most trackbacks will show up on your comments list. Although Akismet does a pretty good job, sometimes you really gotta keep a keen eye on things and make sure splogs don’t leave you a trackback.
Now, when you get a trackback, to protect yourself, all you have to do is check the link and make sure it’s a blog written by a human being. If it’s not, simply mark it as spam and delete it.
There is a better way so you do less work by using some Wordpress plugins.
I use Simple Trackback Validation plugin which checks each trackback to see if there’s a valid website linking to it. This won’t stop splogs but will cut down on your spam checking and filter out most of trackback hackers.
If you have a blog with a pretty good blog, I actually recommended you disable trackbacks completely. I have seen some of my big blogger friends do this, and it works. Simply by limiting the links going out, you can raise your Pagerank, especially if your blog is getting big.
To turn off trackbacks, simply go to Settings->Discussion then unselect Allow link notifications from other blogs (pingbacks and trackbacks).
To Google, trackbacks are nothing but links going out, it doesn’t really help your Pagerank unless you are just starting out.
Now, this probably beats the whole purpose of trackbacks but in this fast moving Web2.0 world, sometimes you gotta do what you need to do to get the job done.
I hope that helps you from losing Pagerank and next time I will show you how to protect yourself against Blog Post Theft and Splogs.
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